August 28, 2023 at 1:13 AM
At the end of July 2023, I relocated to Doha, Qatar for one year, to conuduct my project, ROK-GCC as Visiting Fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs (formerly Brookings Doha Center). My project will be ROK-GCC and spread across three main issues and will conduct fieldwork in KSA, UAE and Qatar: Technology […]
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From July 1 to 5, 2023, I visited Taipei, Taiwan alongside colleagues of The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS) of The Netherlands. Given the geopolitical tensions across the Taiwan Straits and the crucial importance of chips, our visit was filled with discussions with local policymakers, academics and industry persons on contingency scenarios, U.S.-China tensions […]
From June 11 to 16, 2023, I participated in the second edition of the Paris Defence Young Leaders Programme organized by IRSEM (Institut de la Recherche Stratégique et Militaire). My engagements with the foreign embassies in Seoul regarding economic security had led to the opportunity – when I was recommended by Sandra Cohen, Conseillère of […]
July 24, 2023 at 10:15 PM
At the end of summer in 2022, when I was pulling myself out of the Washington, DC policy circles after the passing of the CHIPS & Science Act and the Inflation Reduction Act in the U.S., I was invited to contribute to a joint conference on US.-ROK Science and Tech Partnership on Critical Technologies in […]
In August 2022, I was asked to join the project on ‘Asia in the GCC: A New Strategic Partner?’ by Dr. Adel Abdel Ghafar of the Middle East Council on Global Affairs (MECGA) in Doha, Qatar. MECGA (formerly the Brookings Doha Center) had the proposal to hold two international conferences, one in the Gulf (MECGA […]
December 12, 2022 at 9:43 PM
In December 2022, the second phase of the Democracy in Asia Project of the Foreign Policy Program of the Brookings Institution was completed. I joined the project while at Princeton on a Fung Global Fellowship, and was invited by Dr. Shirley Syaru Lin of CAPRI (Center for Asia-Pacific Resilience and Innovation) and a non-resident Senior […]
September 27, 2022 at 12:06 PM
The long-awaited publication on net-zero that I have been working with National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) has now been published. Click the right for the PDF of the report. This policy report is an outcome of the expert panel held at the NBR HQ in Seattle on June 14, 2022 (read below for further […]
July 13, 2022 at 11:30 AM
During my visit to South Korea this summer, I spoke on a panel at the Asian Leadership Conference held in Seoul from July 13-14, 2022 at the Shilla Hotel in Seoul. Usually the ALC involves speakers that are big-shots in grand ballrooms and I enjoyed the line-up of speakers that are well known, but also […]
On May 25, 2022, I spoke for the first time at a panel organized by Dr. Mireya Solis and Dr. Andrew Yeo at the Center on East Asia Policy (CEAP) at the Foreign Policy Program of the Brookings Institution, with distinguished panelists Hye-Min Lee and Wendy Cutler, who were the prime negotiators of the U.S.-ROK FTA […]
March 3, 2022 at 10:19 PM
My policy paper, ‘South Korea’s Critical Moment in Digital Currency Policymaking: Between Regulating Cryptocurrencies and Launching a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)’ has just been published by the Korea Economic Institute of America (KEI) in Washington, DC. Click on the right to read. This is my ongoing effort on addressing regulating digital currencies in global finance, following […]
